Experts

Chairman of the Executive Committee — Executive Chairman of the CIS

PhD in Philology; Associate Professor; Department of the Theory of Law and Comparative Legal Science HSE

Ph.D. in History, Deputy Chair of the Post-Soviet Foreign Countries Department at the Russian State University for the Humanities

Deputy Director of the Centre for comprehensive European and international studies, Deputy Director of research programs at the Council on foreign and defense policy. Member of the RIAC.

Head of International Projects Section, Postgraduate of World History Department of M.V. Lomonosov Northern (Arctic) Federal University

Scientific director of the Lobachevsky Sate University of Nizhny Novgorod

Ph.D. in History, Expert, Institute of International Studies, Moscow State Institute of International Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation (MGIMO)

Doctor of Science, Programme Director of the Valdai Discussion Club; Academic supervisor of the Center for Comprehensive European and International Studies, HSE University, RIAC Member

Co-chairman of Polish-Russian Group on Difficult Matters, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland

Doctor of Sciences, Professor, Faculty of Law, HSE University, RIAC Member

Chief of Moldova Department, Institute of CIS Countries

PhD in Economics, Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Regional Economic Studies, Institute for Mongolian, Buddhist and Tibetan Studies of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Retired Vice-admiral

PhD University of Cambridge, Researcher, Centre for Energy, Climate and Environmental Law, University of Eastern Finland; consultant at the International Institute for Sustainable Development

Head of Digital and Innovations Research, Associate Professor of Business Practice, Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO

Ph.D. in Political Science, Senior Fellow, Middle East and Africa Division, German Institute for International and Security Affairs / Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)

Independent Analyst

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to the Republic of India, RIAC Member

Doctor of Economics, Director of the Centre for Energy and Transport of the RAS Institute of Oriental Studies

PhD in Political Science, Research Fellow at the Center for Political Studies, RAS Institute of Latin America

PhD in History, Chief of Research and Publishing Dept, RAS Oriental Studies Institute

Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Philosophy Department of the Pacific State University